Course Title: Japanese 2

Part A: Course Overview

Program: C2160

Course Title: Japanese 2

Portfolio: DSC

Nominal Hours: 180.0

Regardless of the mode of delivery, represent a guide to the relative teaching time and student effort required to successfully achieve a particular competency/module. This may include not only scheduled classes or workplace visits but also the amount of effort required to undertake, evaluate and complete all assessment requirements, including any non-classroom activities.

Course Code

Campus

Career

School

Learning Mode

Teaching Period(s)

LANG5486

City Campus

TAFE

365T Global Studies, Soc Sci & Plng

Face-to-Face

Term1 2009,
Term1 2010,
Term2 2010

Course Contact: Ms. Barbara White

Course Contact Phone: +61 3 9925 5211

Course Contact Email: barbara.white@rmit.edu.au


Course Description

This course makes up the year long Certificate II in Language (Japanese). Through closed and then open-ended learning activities you will establish a basis for development of communicative skills in the spoken and written language, emphasizing the former. Your knowledge of basic 90 kanji will be consolidated with further teaching of approximately 120 new kanji characters. You will be able to speak and understand Japanese in a predictable range range of workplace and everyday situations.  Practical knowledge of the culture, in a wide range of personal and social situations and context will be introduced. Student-centred drilling, practical and communicative activities and tasks encourage you to be responsible for your own learning, to be creative and critical in your application of knowledge of the language to communication with people of a different cultural tradition, and to build on your knowledge and interest to a level where learning can continue in daily life.


Pre-requisite Courses and Assumed Knowledge and Capabilities

Certificate I in Applied Language, up to 180 hrs prior study, or equivalent. The ability to read and write the hiragana and katakana scripts and 90 basic kanji characters is essential.



National Competency Codes and Titles

National Element Code & Title:

LOTE 655 Japanese 2


Learning Outcomes

  1.   Participate in a casual conversation on a familiar topic including past, present, and future events
  2. Conduct routine spoken transactions
  3. Give simple directions, instructions, or explanations
  4. Identify specific information in short oral texts 
  5. Write a short recount which includes a description
  6. Identify specific information in a short written text


Overview of Assessment

Your language skills will be assessed using speaking tasks, listening tasks, reading tasks, script tests and short written assignments. The final result is obtained by combining the results of all progressive assessment tasks (this includes class based tasks as well as tasks completed outside of class) with the mid-year and end-of-year examination. Both progressive assessment and exams cover the learning outcomes as described above.